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Dec
15
2005
3:00—5:00 PM
December 02, 2005
Joao Saldanha, Director of the Timor Institute of Development Studies in Dili, East Timor, will speak about the reconstruction efforts in Aceh and East Timor at this CGD seminar. Peter Timmer, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, will chair.
May
9
2005
IN PERSON
Washington, DC
9:00—5:00 PM
December 02, 2005
CGD co-sponsored a Policy Roundtable on Economic Development and Population Dynamics. The roundtable brought together leading policymakers from around the world, including many from Sub-Saharan Africa, to provide consultation on the draft Working Group report and discuss future research and policy d...
New from CGD
November 14, 2005
CGD Senior Fellow Maureen Lewis recently returned from two weeks in East Asia evaluating the international community's response to the threat of a global epidemic of avian flu. In this Q&A she discusses her main findings and suggests that rich countries provide technical assistance and funds to ...
BOOKS
October 17, 2005
Most studies of privatization look at what happens to companies. Reality Check, a new volume of case studies from Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet Union, examines the impact on people. Surprise: privatization has often been a reasonably good thing, even for the poor.
New from CGD
September 26, 2005
Last week the UN Food and Agricultural Organization released a declaration titled The Beijing Consensus on the Future of Global Agriculture and Rural Areas: A Blueprint for Action. CGD Senior Fellow Peter Timmer, who played a leading role in the creation of the document, explains the key recommendat...
WORKING PAPERS
August 10, 2005
In this posthumously published working paper, Dick Sabot argues that the U.S. external deficit is putting at risk the welfare of poor people in developing countries. This accessible paper draws on a forthcoming book, The U.S. as a Debtor Nation, by William Cline, and has been updated to include Clin...